Expect to see a lot more videos soon as we build towards an exciting (for me at least) new addition to the WordPress family, due at about the same time you see 2.7 hit the digital shelves. More on that soon.

As always, your comments, feedback and ideas for videos you’d like to see are very welcome!

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Anyways, I find some of the videos highly unnecessary, I mean come on whoever doesn’t know how to do things like edit permalink, shouldn’t be blogging. I do like the narrator, he has a delightful voice. I do think learning through video is highly effective though.

I immediately followed your instructions on embedding a youtube video on my blog, and, voila!….now my blog is the way I have been trying to get it for sometime. Now that I can embed videos, I can avoid the horrid youtube comments that some posters put up over at that site.

Imagine…youtube videos without the nasty sexist, racist, disparaging comments that have driven me from the viewing of youtube videos.

Keep up the spectacular help WordPress.

You are the standard to emulate in the world. 😉

(P.S.: Thanks also for the information on Javascript. I was in the process of installing a system on my site which could have been done by Javascript or non-javascript.

I will use your recommendations and NOT install any Javascript (unless it is Google or ), and instead I will use the basic URL suggested at that other site.)

Thanks for the kind feedback everyone, much appreciated. We’re trying to make blogging as easy as possible, and hopefully this lowers the threshold a little more. More to come soon.

@ClapSo – had to slip a little tease in there 🙂 As a dyed-in-the-wool vidiot, I hear what you’re saying. Interesting thoughts on the live blogging tip, too.

@sensico – you’d be surprised at some of the support emails that come through 😉 I think a lot of us forget how confounding all of these options seem when you’re a freshly minted blogging newb trying to make sense of what’s what. Thanks for the “delightful voice”, I’m going to pin that up and frame it somewhere 🙂

@Manuel Reis – not tooo long to go – expect to see it later this fall/autumn around November

@mclearskin – thanks – hopefully in the coming weeks and months we’ll be adding some stuff of interest to WordPress veterans too, as well as more pointers for folks just getting started

@Jignesh – thanks for the pointer, I’ll put a third-party widgets ‘cast on the to-do list!

@Jennifer – Thanks for your feedback. A lot of the videos cover the same ground as existing FAQ entries, but I think you have a great point there – we’re expanding documentation all the time, and I think making sure the video isn’t relied on, but rather supplementary, is a good policy. I think we could at least be linking to other FAQ entries from the video pages, or perhaps transcriptions might be a good idea? In terms of zooming the player – we’re going to have bigger, better video coming to a player near you soon. Expanded accessibility options are also something we’re hoping to crack in future iterations of the player.

@jimconnolly – Thanks! I totally agree – it’s the passionate community that really makes WordPress what it is, and the same goes for the documentation. In the none too distant future there are also going to be avenues for users sharing *their* screencasts, which should seriously boost the repository of help available. Stay tuned.

These how-to videos are great! If these were available when I first set up my blog, I might have had more hair left that weekend I started!

Any plans for video how-tos specifically related to setting up a custom blog via the free software at wordpress.org for those of us thinking about eventually going in that direction, getting our own domain and hosting our own blog,and changing the template formats, etc. ? I don’t know CSS and having something like that would be a huge help.

If there already are some available, please forgive me, I don’t know where they are! LOL

@deborahgreenphotography – Thanks for the feedback! Luckily, a lot of the videos here apply to both .org self-hosted blogs and the .com hosted variety – where there are differences, I’ve pointed them out in the flow of things.

That said, we’re planning on putting out a whole bunch of .org videos, too – for things like getting your self-hosted blog installed, up and running, and as you say – customized. We’ll be gathering these together, along with the huge amount of awesome videos made by the WordPress community in a new project, soon. Stay tuned 😉

i checked out the press this screencast and found it very helpful. i’m a non-techie poet adventurer type person who has been blogging only 10 months–i am sure more of these will come in very handy for me!

and with so many new blogs being added every day to WP, the newbies will benefit by having cool blogs even faster and easier!

thanx dude!
good by to all that text one has to read
to get a grip on what the bleep a blog is and
how the bleep they get put together! makes all of us,
the visual fraternity [ie text and jargon challenged dudes’] lives
a doddle now – lucky jamy bastards! 🙂
can’t wait for the one on the
meaning of life
the universe
and
every thing

Are these videos being made accessible to people with disabilities? For example, any audio content should be clearly described in captions or subtitles so that deaf and hard of hearing people can understand (there is a way to set it up so that the captions can be toggled off for people who don’t want them, toggled on for people who do). And any visual content should be described for people who cannot see.

Great idea, I’ve been playing with a paid app called ScreenFlow which is EXCELLENT btw, for training the staff members on our site on putting up drafts, articles, how to compile a story etc.

Only hassles I’ve had is loading them onto WP, does anyone have an idea how to convert the ScreeFlow Doc (audio/visual) into a file format that is acceptable on WP.com

I’m sure this feature that you’re introduced will help a great deal. I’m always pleased with the additions you guys-n-gals at WP do for the community each week. Someone asked me, well actually, everyone I speak to does, is that … “how the dickens do WP make their money if they give all this stuff away for free for the users” . . . I just look perplexed and tell them I have no idea, traffic perhaps, and say it’s the end user who benefits with such innovations.

@xboxoz360 – Many thanks. I’m with you – ScreenFlow is an awesome app, and definitely the best to grace the mac so far IMHO. WordPress.com will accept most of the output options from Screenflow – your best bet would be the default setting from the File>Export menu – “Web High” – h.264 is good stuff and should transition across nicely to the MP4 WordPress converts your files to. The actual docs that ScreenFlow produce are just reference files, so you need to open them up and output them via File>Export to get a playable movie.

@Andrea Shettle – A lot of the new screencasts show things already covered in other FAQ entries,which are text-based. With that said, I think the FAQ entries with the videos might be better served with transcriptions or text-based content as you’ve mentioned. Subtitles are something we hope to add soon – we’re currently making some changes to the video player and improved accessibility is high on the agenda for a future release. Web video has plenty of room to catch up in the world of closed captioning I think and that’s something that needs to change.

As with all of our endeavors, it would be great if members of the WordPress community were able to add translations and captions for those places where there are gaps in our own in-house content. This has worked out really well for localization so far, and I think it could work equally well for accessibility, too. In the meantime, I highly recommend awesome services like http://www.dotsub.com for benign users willing to get stuck in and bridge the gap.

I hope to see a screencast for an average blog readers, say a person who may be looking to add his/her own gravatar icon (for commenting) but may find it too technical to go through the gravatar setup.